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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

WILLIAM STEARNS, OF GETTYSBURG, ASSIGNOR OF ONETHIRD TO RICHARD H. VOOD, OF LEBANON, DAKOTA TERRITORY.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 386,615, dated July 24, 1888.

(No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. STEAENs, of Gettysburg, in the county ot' Potter and Territory of Dakota,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Haine-Staples, of which the following is a specilieation. A

Myinvention is in the nature of a staple designed to be attached tothe haines of a harness for the purpose of connecting the eye ot' the trace-tug thereto in an adjustable manner, so as to perinitthe point ofeonnection to be raised or lowered; and it consists in a staple having along its length open seats for said eye to rest in,in combination with a bar guided upon the end sections of the stapleand forced toward the seats by spiral springs,so as to hold the eye in any one of the seats in which it niay be adjusted.

The figure is a front elevation of one of the hames with my improved staple and traeetng eye attached.

A is the haine, B is the staple, and O is the trace-tug eye. The staple has its end tirinly fastened in the haine by bolts, rivets, orotherwise, and its middle 1 iortion,parallel with the hanies, is formed into a series of notches, I),

this bar and wound upon the end sections of the staple are spiral springs E E, of metal, which bear against the haine and force the bar D outwardly toward the seats in the staple. Now when the eye O ot' the trace-tug is desired to be placed higher or lower itis placed in any one ot' the seats in the staple, and the bar D passing thereagainst, from the tension of its springs holds the eye to its position in that seat, so that it cannot drop therefrom.

This invention is adapted to ordinary han ness, and may be used in connection with any trace'eye.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. The conibination,with a haine, of a staple having notches or seats for the tugeye, and a spring-actuated bar guided upon the legs of the staple and pressing outwardly toward said seats, substantially as shown and described.

2. The eombination,with a hame,ot' a staple, B, having a series of notches or seats, b, the spring-actuated bar D, having openings at its end,th rough which the ends ofthe staples pass, and spiral springs E E wound upon the legs for1ningseats,into any one of which the eye C i ofthe staple between the spring-bar D and the may rest.

D is a metal bar of the same length as the staple, and having perforations in its ends, through which the ends ofthe staple are passed before being secured in the hame. Just behind haine, substantially as shown and described.

' NVILLIAM T. STEARNS. 'Witnessesz RICHARD H. Woon, ELLA R. WooD. 

